Author N. Leigh Hunt, a crime historian and broadcaster, spent years researching and uncovering shocking details from officers, investigators, and lost police dispatches. He has interviewed people who were on the scene and local reporters who spoke with the perpetrator directly after her shooting spree.

Hunt has even cultivated an unlikely rapport with the killer and through personal interviews, has shed light on previously unknown details about her upbringing and influences.

What happened on January 29, 1979, wasn’t a crime of passion. This was something new: a child shooting children she didn’t know, from her home across the street, for no reason that made sense.
In 1979, Brenda Spencer, a seemingly average teenage girl living in a nice suburban neighbourhood, made and executed plans that would place her in infamy and set a violent and terrifying national precedent.

She receives a rifle for Christmas and a month later set her sights and opens fire on the elementary school across the street.

The event marks the bloody beginning of the American phenomenon of school shootings. Before Columbine and Sandy Hook, there was Brenda Spencer...

I Don’t Like Mondays sifts through the mythology that has sprung up around this fateful day, presenting the raw and riveting facts for the first time. This book lays bare this seemingly average teenage girl’s brutal motives and subsequent arrest.

Product Information:
• ISBN: 9781917439671
• Author: N.Leigh Hunt
• Publisher: Mirror Books Macmillan
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 288
• Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.9 x 5 cm